AMPT Build Your Board Cohort
Build the board that you need to help move your mission forward.
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Cohort Size: 20 cohort members
Pre-Cohort Gathering: All cohort members are invited to attend an in-person community-building session at the AMPT Office on Monday, September 29th, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM.
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Cohort Sessions: Cohort meets weekly over 6 weeks from October to November 2025, for 4 hours each session:
Session 1: Wednesday, October 8th, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, (Virtual)
Session 2: Wednesday, October 15th, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, (Virtual)
Session 3: Wednesday, October 22nd, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, (Virtual)
Session 4: Wednesday, October 29th, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, (Virtual)
Session 5: Wednesday, November 5th, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, (Virtual)
Session 6: Wednesday, November 12th, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, (Virtual)
PLEASE HOLD ALL OF THESE DATES AND TIMES ON YOUR CALENDAR.
Applications are now closed for the 2025 Experience.
We are beyond excited to launch our Build Your Board Cohort opportunity at AMPT: Advancing Nonprofits!
This 6-week cohort experience aims to support nonprofit executive directors, who are at the early stages of building out their board, with basic tools, knowledge, and resources around developing a board that will champion their organizational mission and work. By the end of this series, you'll have an action plan around your board development goals, based on your organization's needs.
Hear from our 2022 Nonprofit Board Training Cohort Members:
Questions:
What approach did you take to recruit for your board, and how have you developed the makeup of your board, and defined its role?
How have you embraced antiracist values and principles to manage decision-making processes or accountability within your board?
How do you engage your board in championing your org mission? and/or in helping raise resources through creative collaboration, an abundance mindset, and/or a strengths-based approach?
What were the first steps that you took around your board after your participation in the cohort? What do you recommend, or what do you wish you would have done differently?
Panelists:
Robin Boyd, she/her/yall, Board President at Dr. John Carlos Movement Center -Chicago - Shenika Jackson, She/Her/Hers, Chief Operating Officer at MY Foundation: Street Smarts To Great Starts Corp - Tameka Lawson, She/Her, Executive Director at Restored Hope
The goal of this panel is to help provide some insight on how previous cohort members in AMPT's Nonprofit Board Training Cohort have put the curriculum theory into action so far as they continue developing their board.
To watch the full panel, watch it on our Youtube channel with this link!
Testimonials
Our Impact
Words from one of our Fall 2022 Nonprofit Board Training Cohort Member
“[The Nonprofit Board Training Cohort] has helped me think of different ways to do governance so that board members are connected to the work and can make empathetic decisions based on what is actually happening; but also stay high-level on strategy/vision as well. For example we are thinking of sociocracy and talking with other cohort members helped me to refine exactly how that plays out.”
Words from one of our Fall 2022 Nonprofit Board Cohort Members
“There wasn't just one moment, activity, or topic that was most impactful. For me, it was all impactful. I feel more confident in putting together a collaboration session with my team to fine tune our future Board.”
Past Nonprofit Board Training
Cohort Members
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People Matter
STOMPING GROUNDS LAI
Kenwood Oakland Comm. Org
Restored Hope
dr John Carlos Movement Center -Chicago
Action Now Institute
Darren B Easterling Center for Restorative Practices
En Las Tablas Performing Arts, NFP
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment
Illinois CHW Association
MY Foundation: Street Smarts To Great Starts Corp.
Chicago Freedom School
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BA NIA
Centro Sanar
Chicago Volunteer Doulas, Inc.
Distinctively Me
Grace Sister to Sister Organization
Life Changing Family Services
Outreach Chicago
Pink Lemons, Nfp
Railroad Tracks Music Academy
St. Paul Community Family Services